Another Adventure of a Lifetime!
We made it! Me and son Shawn after hiking up the Bright Angel Trail. Tuesday, May 7, Rob took me and Shawn to the Sacramento airport to begin our 6 day adventure in the Grand Canyon. This is the third of 5 "Adventures of a Lifetime" to celebrate each of my children turning 50. The first of these adventures came a year late, due to COVID, for daughter Sheila and me celebrating our 50th and 70th birthdays when we hiked from inn to inn in southern Sweden in the spring of 2022. Son Scott turned 50 in February 2023, and he and I did a canoe trip down the St. Croix River during Hurricane Lee in the fall of 2023. These trips were so fun and such a great opportunity to spend individual time with my children that I didn't want to wait two more years for Shawn to turn 50 so I decided that since I'm aging faster than they are I would celebrate the next three children turning 50 early. Friends Bill and Barb in Eureka had raved about their trips down the Colorado River in the ...